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Where's the best place to pick one of these up from?
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No real bugs.
NFC version is pointless at the moment. NFC version will allow read and write of NFC tags but Barclaycard/Orange will offer NFC Read SIM cards now.
NFC will take a while to take off.
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Well I charged my phone this morning and now at 3.50 I have 9% leftbut I did hammer the GPS for like 4 hours. But should the GPS usage show up on the batter status page? As it hasn't on mine.
I have also turned off the hubs etc so not sure whats drained it so much. Also I keep seeing when I go into Advanced Task Manager that the BBC Iplayer app keeps appearing even after I stop it, anyone know why?
4 hours gps what was that? if it was sat nav that will kill a battery in hours
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my phone was fully charged this morning and was down to 2% by lunchtime. I have no idea why but i did notice the battery monitor said my wifi was on even though i had it switched off. Also facebook apparently used 34% of my battery even though it wasnt running. 'Bit odd.
I'm currently charging it to full, then i'll reset the battery calibration and see what that does. grr
I'm currently charging it to full, then i'll reset the battery calibration and see what that does. grr
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Anyone else having trouble with the iplayer app after updating flash to 10.3? I get nasty banding when watching in full screen, though rolling the flash update back fixes it. A quick google brought up some others with the same issue, I hope it gets sorted.
I just bought new router - Netgear N600 WNDR3700 (to solve SGS2 low signal problems when in different room from AP) which according to reviews should be able to do ~130Mbps (when set to 5GHz and 300mbps), However when paired with SGS2 best reported speed is 65 mbps and effectively the highest achieved speed via netspeed or kies air (file copying) is only ~ 32mbps or ~ 4MB/s. That is regardless of selected channel or 2.4GHz vs. 5GHz or encryption, with few cms from router (at excellent signal strength) etc. Clearly SGS2 is the bottleneck here - sadly not even able to saturate my internet connection with this phone http://oi51.tinypic.com/2zqyi5d.jpg - feels like I wasted money on that router as any cheap 30€ one would perform equally as well
. Now eager to test my new 16GB micro SD class 10 card - hopefully SGS2 will do better here than in handling wifi.
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who uses widget locker?
how do you get into the options, im having trouble getting to grips with it
how do you get into the options, im having trouble getting to grips with it
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just noticed theres a new firmware update any one know what its for?
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there is? details?
you have to load the app from the app drawer or wherever your shortcut is to get the options. You cant do it from the lockscreen itself
you have to load the app from the app drawer or wherever your shortcut is to get the options. You cant do it from the lockscreen itself
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there is? details?
you have to load the app from the app drawer or wherever your shortcut is to get the options. You cant do it from the lockscreen itself
oh i see!
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KE7 still the latest for me.
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Took phone off charge this morning at 7am, wi-fi / bluetooth / sync / push all permanently on. Made & received numerous calls, texts, e-mails, browsing and general messing about on it for the day....... 65% charge when I've just plugged it in.
My old HTC desire would have packed up around 2 hours ago, this thing is insane.
My old HTC desire would have packed up around 2 hours ago, this thing is insane.
Charging now made 22 hours on the last charge.
You see this is what I want to hear, as I've been following this thread and a lot of the posts are related to poor battery performance and apps seemingly running and killing the battery for no reason.
What ROM version you two running?
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I just bought new router - Netgear N600 WNDR3700 (to solve SGS2 low signal problems when in different room from AP) which according to reviews should be able to do ~130Mbps (when set to 5GHz and 300mbps), However when paired with SGS2 best reported speed is 65 mbps and effectively the highest achieved speed via netspeed or kies air (file copying) is only ~ 32mbps or ~ 4MB/s. That is regardless of selected channel or 2.4GHz vs. 5GHz or encryption, with few cms from router (at excellent signal strength) etc. Clearly SGS2 is the bottleneck here - sadly not even able to saturate my internet connection with this phone http://oi51.tinypic.com/2zqyi5d.jpg - feels like I wasted money on that router as any cheap 30€ one would perform equally as well
So I've got the same router and have experienced a simliar problem, but guess it the phone maxing out at 65Mbps. What I'd be interested to know is how you get on with the range of it. 5Ghz drops of quite quickly, as expected, but the 2.4Ghz doesn't do much better. Under 10 meters from the router I'm down to poor signal and the connection speed drops off a cliff, not unusual to see it down as low as 2 or even 1 Mbps. The router with DD-WRT on it shows the transmit speed for the device and its dragging the whole of the 2.4Ghz band down speed wise.
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Nope, not unless there is an app or a specific OS function that keeps the phone in a sleep state.
Phones these days run on advanced operating systems, much like Windows / OSX. Think of it this way, if you switched your PC off, it wouldn't run alarms either
5GHz had major problems with (concrete) walls so I am at 2.4GHz. Here the signal strength / measured speed is clearly better than with my old d-link (at the same distance) however still the problem of (concrete) walls and distance is quite a major one. I just put the new router to room where I spent most of the time and kept old router where it was - having 2 routers seems to be the only way how to maintain decent signal for SGS2 in different rooms. I haven't tested with distance of 10m with clear sight at the router, but less than 10m with walls / obstacles and the speed drops fairly quickly.
I am fairly sure (unless someone can prove otherwise) that the problem is in the phone not the other network elements. Also - not sure if 65mbit limit with perfect signal is common with smartphones but from a flagship device I definitely expected more.
Well im a bit boring i am yet to grow a pair and flash my phone. Im on the stock firmware.